M.2 Drives

[basilbinladen]

Hey folks,

First up I am new to this site and this is my first post so please don't slate me too much.

I recently purchased a Samsung SM961 OEM 256GB drive. This is my first M.2 drive and I purchased it after many hours looking at reviews online. What confuses me is if I follow the online reviews then I should be getting a 850/950ssd or spending a small fortune on a 950/960Pro which appears to b3 a] more expensive and b] slower.

Looking to buy a 2nd for raid?

 

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CrystalDiskMark 5.2.0 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

   Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) :  3117.805 MB/s
  Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) :  1412.594 MB/s
  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :   460.462 MB/s [112417.5 IOPS]
 Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :   384.295 MB/s [ 93822.0 IOPS]
         Sequential Read (T= 1) :  1633.423 MB/s
        Sequential Write (T= 1) :  1297.225 MB/s
   Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :    38.567 MB/s [  9415.8 IOPS]
  Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :   159.880 MB/s [ 39033.2 IOPS]

  Test : 1024 MiB [C: 42.1% (100.0/237.3 GiB)] (x5)  [Interval=5 sec]
  Date : 2016/12/18 14:25:06
    OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 14965] (x64)

[Altecice]

Grab another SM961, but to be fair a RAID at that speed will net you no real performance increase, only some Epeen within benchmarks.

[SCHISCHKA]

your better off buying one large SSD than buying two small ones for RAID

[basilbinladen]

I get that but my point is why do the reviews recommend the 960 or the 850 evo etc when this drive appears much faster for less money?